Category: Poetry

Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden

English verse allegory, humorous or serious, political or moral, has deep roots; a reprint such as the present is clearly no place for a discussion of the subject at large:[1] it need only be recalled here that to the age that produced _The Pilgrim's Progress_ the art form was...

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5. Part 5

To epitomize which scandalous Phamphlet (unworthy the denomination of _Poesy_) no eye can inspect it without a prodigious amazement; the abuses being so gross and deliberate, th...

8. Part 8

They who in _Amazia_'s favour grew, Themselves obnoxious to the People knew. Some were accused by the _Sanhedrim_, Most Friends and Allies to _Eliakim_: For his Succession eager...

6. Part 6

The _Chemerarims_, the learnedst Priests, of all The numerous Swarms which did belong to _Baal_, Bred up in subtil Arts, to _Jews_ well known, And fear'd for Bloody Morals of th...

3. Part 3

Here, Glorious _Hushai_, let me mourn thy Fate, Thou once great Pillar of the _Hebron_ State: Yet now to Dungeons sent, and doom'd t'a Grave. But Chains are no new Sufferings to...

4. Part 4

But the entirest Hearts his Cause could steal, Were the Levitick Chiefs of _Israel_. None with more Rage the Impious Thought run down Of barring _Absolon_, Pow'r, Wishes, Crown....

2. Part 2

In Gloomy Times, when Priestcraft bore the sway, And made Heav'ns Gate a Lock to their own Key: When ignorant Devotes did blindly bow, And groaping to be sav'd they knew not now...

1. Part 1

English verse allegory, humorous or serious, political or moral, has deep roots; a reprint such as the present is clearly no place for a discussion of the subject at large:[1] i...

7. Part 7

_Hushai_ in Silence heard the Prince, and weigh'd Each word he spake, then to him thus reply'd; Great Prince, th' Almighty has to you been kind, } Stamp'd Graces on your Body an...